Letter: U.S. being run by gun manufacturers

By MARGARET WARNER, Perkasie

Friday, April 26, 2013

The way the senate operates is totally unacceptable. The new type of filibuster continuously derails it. We need honest votes on all issues and then the majority wins. Let the filibuster be what it is supposed to be where someone stands up and talks for a long period of time until either the person gives in or the matter has been resolved. In the case of universal background checks it became a way to stop the bill from passing. That is so wrong on every level. Then I have read why two senators did not vote for it. They both claimed that they couldn’t vote for it because there were no safe guards that prevented a national registry. Really, can they not read or did they not take the time to find out what was really in the bill? The bottom line is the congress has been bought and paid for by the NRA and they own them. It gives me little comfort to know my country is being run by gun and ammunition manufactures. There is no other logical explanation for what occurred. We need real change. And it is up to all of us to see that that happens.